Welcome to
The Paz lab!
In this lab we are fascinated by biodiversity and want to understand its distribution across the globe both at the species and community levels.
We are passionate about questions such as what is the distribution of species x? What are the factors determining the distribution of species x? Why are species traits and evolutionary histories different in different areas? How do environments shape the distribution of species, species characteristics and communities?
We are interested in the distributions of a variety of organisms but do have a slight bias towards the super diverse amphibians!
We are generally interested in spatially explicit research and love interdisciplinary research and in that context have been involved in projects spanning from the study of deforestation drivers to the distribution of tropical diseases.
We are driven by questions and we use a variety of spatial, quantitative and qualitative methods to tackle the questions we are interested in and sometimes even develop methods if needed.
If you are passionate about these topics and want to join The Paz Lab we want to hear from you!
We love having undergraduates join for internships or honors thesis projects. If you are interested in joining the lab, please contact Andrea and include a short message on why you would like to join our team. Or you can drop by my office to talk, it’s B-5413.
Non-undergraduate applicants, please use one of the buttons below to apply to the lab. We look forward to hearing from you!
In this Lab we believe
SCIENCE is real
LOVE is love
BIPOC lives matter
FEMINISM is for everyone
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IMMIGRANTS are welcome
The University of Montreal and the Paz Lab are located where, long before French settlement, different indigenous peoples interacted with each other. We wish to pay tribute to these indigenous peoples, to their descendants, as well as to the spirit of fraternity which presided over the signing in 1701 of the Great Peace of Montreal, a peace treaty founding lasting peaceful relations between France, its Indigenous allies and the Haudenosauni Confederacy (pronunciation: O-di-no-sho-ni). The spirit of fraternity at the origin of this treaty is a model for our university community.
The University of Montreal and the Paz Lab recognize that they are located on indigenous territory not ceded by treaty, and wish to salute those who, since time immemorial, have been its traditional guardians. We express our respect for the contribution of indigenous peoples to the culture of societies here and around the world.
[Text translated and adapted from the official territorial acknowledgment of the University of Montreal ]
